SUMMARY STATEMENT

Madeleine has a Ph.D. from the Department of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her dissertation is entitled “The Hidden Language of Emotion: Cognitive Romanticism in Wordsworth and Shelley” and was completed under the direction of co-chairs Julie Carlson and Sowon Park. Her research interests include trauma-informed pedagogy and restorative justice, and she has extended teaching experience in interdisciplinary studies, first-year composition, and science fiction.

EDUCATION

Ph.D., English, University of California, Santa Barbara (2024)

Concentrations: British Romanticism, General Theory, Literature and Mind

The Hidden Language of Emotion: Cognitive Romanticism in Wordsworth and Shelley

Advisors: Julie Carlson, James Donelan, Sowon Park

M.A., English, University of California, Santa Barbara (2019)

B.A., English, Boston University (2017)
Graduate of the Kilachand Honors College, magna cum laude

“Whose Fatal Scroll”: The Depiction of Voice and Development of Blakean Gothic in Poetical Sketches (1783)

Departmental Prize

PUBLICATIONS

Forthcoming: “Feeling the “Unremembered”: Neuroscience, Wordsworth, and Depictions of AI”
For Neohelicon (Springer Journals) 

A Living Anti-Racist Dictionary for Romanticism (LADR), an interactive zine developed for the Keats-Shelley Association of America/Romantic Circles Anti-Racist Pedagogy Colloquium (2022)
Co-author: Meg Jianing Zhang (Columbia University)

“Emotion, Deixis, and Wordsworth” for the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR) Graduate Student Caucus (NGSC) blog New Approaches (2021)

Various contributions to All Music Books including:

• “Not So Good ‘Girls…’” (2014), review of Record Collecting for Girls: Unleashing Your Inner Music Nerd, One Album at a Time by Courtney E. Smith.

• “An Essential Record of a Parallel Universe” (2021), review of Rock She Wrote: Women Write About Rock, Pop, and Rap edited by Evelyn McDonnell and Ann Powers.

• “Someone Else Entirely: Kim Gordon’s Modern Take on Girlhood” (2021), essay on Girl in a Band: A Memoir by Kim Gordon.

AWARDS AND HONORS

Outstanding Teaching Assistant Departmental Award, 2021
for work in Professor Sowon Park’s ENGL 170: Mind Brain and Literature
University of California, Santa Barbara

Academic Senate Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, 2019
Nomination
University of California, Santa Barbara

College Prize for Excellence in English, 2017
Boston University English Department

The Alice M. Brennan Humanities Award, 2016
Boston University Center for the Humanities

Presidential Scholar, 2013 – 2017
Boston University 

CONFERENCES/TALKS

“Bankrupting the Poor Laws: Wordsworth, Betts, and the Role of Emotion in the Legal System.” Paper accepted to The North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR) conference “Romanticism and Justice” at Sam Houston State University, 2023.

“The Hidden Language of Emotion.” Paper presented at the International Society for Research on Emotion Conference at the University of Southern California, 2022.

“Blood and Judgment Well Commeddled: Emotion and Cognition through Shakespeare’s Hamlet.” Paper presented at the Southland Emergences Conference by the University of California Los Angeles, 2021. 

“The Tension of the Unremembered: Wordsworth and Neuroscience.” Paper accepted to the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts’ 33rd Annual Conference “Experimental Engagements” at The University of California at Irvine, 2019.

“‘The American Tale of Terror’: Construction of Kinship and Identity in Absalom, Absalom!” Paper accepted to the Faulkner’s Families: 46th Annual Faulkner & Yoknapatawpha Conference at the University of Mississippi, 2019.

“Byron’s ‘Transient Trace’: Anxiety About Autonomy and Plurality of Mind in Child Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto 3.” Paper accepted to the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism: “Romantic Elements” conference at the University of Chicago, 2019.

“The Supposed ‘Spontaneous Overflow’: Wordsworth, Emotion, and Neuroscience.” Paper accepted to the International Conference on Romanticism: Romantic Assembly conference at Clemson University, 2018.

“‘Damn Your Eyes’: Vision, Tactility, and Distance in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse.” Paper presented at the Intersubjectivity and Literature conference at the University of California, Santa Barbara, 2018.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Teaching Associate, UCSB Writing Program (2023-2024)

WRIT 2: Academic Writing (First-Year Composition)

Instructor with the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center (2021-2022)
Foundations in the Humanities Prison Correspondence Program

Instructor of Record (2020 – 2022)

Literature and Emotion (ENGL 171LE) x3

Teaching Assistant, UCSB English Department (2018 – 2023)

Introduction to Literary Study (ENGL 10) x3
Introduction to Literature and the Environment (ENGL 22)
Experiencing Shakespeare (INT 35LT)
Utopian Dreaming: History, Science Fiction, and Isla Vista (INT 37UD)
Introduction to Comparative Ethnic Literatures (ENGL 50)
English Literature from the Medieval Period to 1650 (ENGL 101)
English and American Literature from 1650 – 1789 (ENGL 102) x2
American Literature from 1900 – Present (ENGL 104A)
Early Shakespeare (ENGL 105A)
Introduction to Genre: Science Fiction (ENGL 192SF)
Science Fiction: Dystopian Fiction (ENGL 192DF) x2
Mind Brain and Literature (ENGL 170MB)
Literature and the Human Mind (ENGL 171)
Neurohumanism (ENGL 171NH)

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE AND SERVICE

Vice President: Neurodivergent Students BeWell Project (2023-2024)

Contact: Yvette Doss

Co-founder and Vice President of a registered campus organization and student-run pilot project at UCSB to benefit neurodivergent students (ASD, ADHD) through the Girvetz Graduate School of Education. Responsible for developing and launching the project as a Student Coach, including: holding Office Hours as a friendly and supportive contact on campus, connecting neurodivergent students with existing campus resources (especially mental health and well-being services, such as counseling, therapy, meditation, yoga, fitness, nutritional counseling, etc.), and providing hands-on assistance with service appointments and service on-boarding.

Fellow for the Anti-Racist Pedagogy Colloquium (2022)
for the Keats-Shelley Association of America/Romantic Circles
Supervisor: Conny Cassity
One of four members of the Colloquium’s second cohort, designed to discuss and produce a digital resource of anti-racist teaching and learning resources, discovering, gathering, developing, and elaborating anti-racist pedagogies as essential to work in the field of Romanticism. Projects included creating a living dictionary of terms and collecting updated syllabi and assignments for teaching Romanticism.

Graduate Conference Coordinator (2021-2022)
Supervisor: James Donelan
Handled organizational and planning for the 2022 International Conference on Romanticism, Persuasions: The Rhetoric of Romanticism at the University of California, Santa Barbara in October 2022. Duties and contributions include creating and operating the conference website and Twitter accounts, handling submissions and liaising with participants, organizing the conference schedule, and designing conference programs among others.

Medical Humanities Book Club Sponsor (2020-2021)
Graduate student representative and convener of the Medical Humanities Book Club initiative, started and run by undergraduates in the UCSB Medical Humanities program. Responsibilities included attending weekly meetings, selecting texts about portrayals of illness for the group, and directing discussions with pre-written questions and moderation.

Literature and Mind Research Assistant (2020-2021)
Supervisor: Julie Carlson
Research Assistant for the Lit and Mind center at UCSB. Responsibilities included coordinating events, leading discussion groups, web development for a new website, as well as drafting and supervising email blasts. The RA role is the outward-facing position for the center, and requires promoting the center and liaising between students and faculty, doing outreach in the wider campus community.

Arnhold Project Manager and Archival Researcher (2018)
Supervisor: Candace Waid
One of four graduate students selected to aid in gathering materials from the Albert and Shirley Smalls Special Collections Library (UVA) in preparation for a future course on William Faulkner to be offered through the UCSB English department. Duties included navigating the archives, transcription work of primary documents, and finally mentoring undergraduate students working on projects based on these materials to promote engagement and experience with archival research.

EBBA Summer Research Assistant (2018-2019)
Supervisor: Kristen McCants
Summer research assistant working on the nationally award-winning English Broadside Ballad Archive at UCSB. Various tasks included blackletter transcription and manipulation in Photoshop among others.